Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An area of diminished vision within the visual field.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A defect in the visual field.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Scotomy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an area of impaired or lost vision within a field of vision otherwise in a good (or at least healthy) state
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an isolated area of diminished vision within the visual field
Etymologies
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Examples
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The neurological term for this is scotoma, which is Greek for “blind spot.”
The Answer John Assaraf 2008
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The neurological term for this is scotoma, which is Greek for “blind spot.”
The Answer John Assaraf 2008
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Now that you are free of newspeak, scotoma, and see clearly, you can grasp the probable results from ObamaCare, from adding a Government Insurance option to the mind-numbing morass of insurance choices and limitless paperwork.
» Heinlein on national health care: TANSTAAFL heinleinblog 2009
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We the Muslims need the Palestinians to remain locked in their plight so that they might continue to serve as the Ummah's scotoma (a blindspot) which literally prevents us from seeing our own more immediate distresses, distresses which might demand our attention and perhaps even require societal interventions.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View 2010
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We the Muslims need the Palestinians to remain locked in their plight so that they might continue to serve as the Ummah's scotoma (a blindspot) which literally prevents us from seeing our own more immediate distresses, distresses which might demand our attention and perhaps even require societal interventions.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View 2010
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We the Muslims need the Palestinians to remain locked in their plight so that they might continue to serve as the Ummah's scotoma a blindspot which literally prevents us from seeing our own more immediate distresses, distresses which might demand our attention and perhaps even require societal interventions .
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View MD Qanta Ahmed 2010
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That is what you expect and therefore that is what you see (scotoma).
Deane Waldman: July 4th Gift: Freedom from Newspeak, Scotoma, & Rose-Colored Glasses 2009
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Now that you are free of newspeak, scotoma, and see clearly, you can grasp the probable results from ObamaCare, from adding a Government Insurance option to the mind-numbing morass of insurance choices and limitless paperwork.
Deane Waldman: July 4th Gift: Freedom from Newspeak, Scotoma, & Rose-Colored Glasses 2009
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Do you like what you now hear using real words (oldspeak) and what you now see putting aside scotoma and taking off those rose-colored glasses?
Deane Waldman: July 4th Gift: Freedom from Newspeak, Scotoma, & Rose-Colored Glasses 2009
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Read the scintillating details of my scotoma here.
Archive 2007-04-01 Ann Althouse 2007
yarb commented on the word scotoma
...a genius if ever there was one, the possessor, together with the appalling insight, of all the scotomas and quirks of such dedicated powers...
- Malcolm Lowry, October Ferry to Gabriola
July 30, 2008